Judge, 1906-09-08 · page 12 of 16
Judge — September 8, 1906 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine with a few scattered joke items. The main content consists of commercial advertisements for products like Old Crow Rye whiskey, Mennen's talcum powder, piano manufacturers, and patent medicine remedies (notably a "Blood Poison" cure). The few satirical pieces are brief topical jokes: - A joke about a railroad clerk seeking marriage, with a senator cynically noting that "side grafts are quite remunerative"—a reference to **railroad corruption and bribery**, common scandals of the era. - An Arkansas newspaper editor's humorous "coat of arms" announcement, satirizing **social climbing** through false genealogy claims and pretentious heraldry. These jokes reflect Judge's typical focus on **urban corruption, social pretension, and matrimonial mercenary motives**—standard satirical targets of early 20th-century American humor magazines. The page otherwise demonstrates the magazine's heavy reliance on advertising revenue.
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ASK FOR and see that you get OLD CROW RYE Sold everywhere in bottles. Never sold in bulk. MENNEN’S BORATED TALCUM TOILET POWDER for After Shaving. Collars on Cuffs BARKER aN, NN MADE OF LINEN J. Two FOR 25<" Intending purchasers of a STRICTLY FIRST. GLASS Plane; or Pano and Sell-Piayer combined, to examine the merits of and the “SOHMER -CECILIAN” Inmde Players, hich surpass all others. 15< the world: logue mailed on application. COMPANY, New Yorn. BLOOD POISON FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS. we have made the cure of Blood Poison a Blood Polses Permanently Cured. red at home under same guar- “apital $yaovo00. We solicit the most e cases. If you have exhausted the old have aches fou can be anty. ‘obstinat methods of treatment and still COOK REMEDY CO. 1480 MASONG TEMPLE, — Chicage, Ml, U. S. A. uae SUCCESS ON THE SIDE. I presume, sir,” began the young man timidly, “that you will consider it very presumptuous for a fifty-dollar railroad clerk to apply for your daughter's hand in marriage.” “Not at all, my boy,” responded ca ator Slickguy kindly. “I dare s side grafts are quite Temunerative"— Philadelphia Bulletin, The day after, you need Abbott's Angostura Bitters. Braces the nerves; sustains you throughout the day, and makes you feel bright and cheerful. At druggists’. INSTEAD OF LOOKING FOR ANOTHER ONE. “It’s awful: for a young man to lose a|~ gooul opportunity.” “Yes, because he doesn’t do anything all the rest of his life but lose time talk- ing about it."—Philadelphia Ledger. A Mrs. Wii Mothers will their children. ase a bottle. ing Syrup the best remedy tor HE FOUND THAT OUT, “could never understard,” said the solemn person, * what is the attraction | in autoing.” « Perhaps,” replied the beginner, wit the bandaged head, “it's the attraction of gravitation."— Philadelphia Press. The musician or artist who buys a_Sobmer Piano gets an instrument that is a work of art, and the result of many years’ hard study and labor. MARRIAGE ON THIRTY PER. The fashionable girl had accepted him, and the young man was wondering how far his thirty dollars a week would go. “You must remember that life is not {all golf and tennis,” murmured he. “Why, of course it isn’t,” she re- sponded brightly. « There's boating and coaching and bridge and ever so many things."—Louisvisle Courier-Journal. EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. An Arkansas city editor makes this announcement : “In order to break into society—with- out being compelled to lay myself liable for using a jimmy—I beg to announce that I have lately received permission from the College of Heralds to use my ancestral coat-of-arms. The device is very beautiful, consisting of a jackrabbit rampant spitting in the lace of a bulldog couchant, on a shield quartering green, yellow, red and pure white. The green is emblematical of the color of my fore- fathers ; the yellow of that streak we all have in common at times and upon occa- sions ; the red what I sometimes get in my eye and what I used to pay fifteen cents a drink. for, and the white is em- blematic of my bank-book at present and |my intentions all the time; the whole | surmounted by a crown of lambs-quarter greens and three green onions ahashed. The motto is, +In hoc fricassee,’ mean-| ing, ‘my great-grandfather was one of the three thousand or four thousand ragged Continentals who crossed the Del- aware in the same boat with Washing- ton.’ I might also add that my wife is| distantly related to Lord Nelson, whose \ison—- “Woe only winskey thet paces a compete, quararkeed analysis on each werery, beitle- See back label! ‘ The Judge Company publishes the only humorous monthly magazine in America. The Magazine of Fun (formerly Judge’s Library) has shown a remarkable growth during the past year, and is now read by more thar a quarter of a million persons monthly. | Each issue usually contains a many as twelve original humorous articles and thirty pages of pictures. September number now on sale on all news-stands, 10 cents a copy. JUDGE COMPANY : : : : : 225 Fourth Avenue NEW YORK father was one of the best section bosses on the road from Cork to Dublin. Look-| out for my coming-out function."—Ex. USE ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE, de to be shakes ito the stows. Uf you have ciced tching lout try’ Allen's Foot-Pams, i ress the int and males nw or tght ahs easy. Corea Sorns and. onions oi Yor FREE trial package, also. Free Sagi of ‘the FOOT-EASE Sanitary CORN-PAD, a Tnvention, address, Allen S, Olmsced, Le Roy, N. VIEWS OF PARIS! The Egyptian Cigarette of Quality AROMATIC DELICACY— MILDNESS-— PURITY At your club or dealer's SURBRUG-Importer comicbooks.com